Day 1126 My Fiftieth Reunion
Monday October 28, 2019
373 Days until the 2017 election and 458 days until the Inauguration
Went back to my high school. Things have changed. The school is bigger now. They’ve added girls by taking in two of the girls schools so we are no longer The King School, but rather KLHT for King Low-Heywood Thomas. The alumni reunion was held on Homecoming weekend and now they have food trucks and hundreds of people, quite different than when we were there. At that time, maybe half a dozen of the guys came. We walked through the old hallway where our classrooms were. They’ve gotten smaller it seems. A few memories.
We had a dinner Friday night. It took a few seconds to recognize some of them. Of our class of 32, 14 made it back, three have passed on. I’d say we were mellower, more forgiving. Some even apologized to others for past bad behavior. Saturday evening the school had a cocktail reception and we followed with another group dinner.
We hadn’t changed in our basic being. It was nice. It was the proper amount of time.
I fell asleep downstairs trying to watch the fifth game of The World Series. Once I got upstairs I was pretty much awake and tried again. I was taken by the quiet drama. It’s not so much what happens as the anticipation of what might happen. It takes some maturity to appreciate that.
373 Days until the 2017 election and 458 days until the Inauguration
PS Some of the gang
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